An overview of financial management and the financial environment -- Financial statements, cash flow, and taxes -- Analysis of financial statements -- Time value of money -- Bonds, bond valuation, and interest rates -- Risk, return, and the capital asset pricing model -- Stocks, stock valuation, and stock market equilibrium -- Financial options and applications in corporate finance -- The cost of capital -- The basics of capital budgeting : evaluating cash flows -- Cash flow estimation and risk analysis -- Financial planning and forecasting financial statements -- Corporate valuation, value-based management and corporate governance -- Distributions to shareholders : dividends and repurchases -- Capital structure decisions -- Working capital management -- Multinational financial management -- Appendix A: Solutions to self-test problems -- Appendix B: Answers to end-of-chapter problems -- Appendix C: Selected equations and data -- Appendix D: Values of the areas under the standard normal distribution function -- Glossary.
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Focus on the financial concepts, skills, and technological applications that are most critical for MBA students in today's workplace with Ehrhardt/Brigham's CORPORATE FINANCE: A FOCUSED APPROACH, 4E. This lean text provides an in-depth treatment of all topics essential to corporate finance within a streamlined presentation that you can complete in a single semester. Your students review the latest financial developments -- from the collapse of the sub-prime mortgage market to the financial and global economic crisis -- as this edition shows them how to maximize a firm's value in today's changed world. Numerous recent examples illustrate the relevance of what students are learning, while Excel Tool Kits, "Build a Model" problems, and Mini-Case Spreadsheets help students master the many functions of Excel. Students even gain hands-on experience with the same tool Wall Street professionals use daily with new Thomson ONE-Business School Edition problems. Trust this book's concise, focused presentation to clearly demonstrate how and why corporations make specific financial decisions.